How long did it take for your first sale?

[JAIDEEP2959]

I remember I had made my first sale of $14 last year after 3 months into Internet Marketing.

The product was about Forex Trading and my sales page was on Hubpages.com.

Later, Hubpages.com became very strict and removed my page.

[SurviveUnemployment]

I was stupid, and it took me almost nine months to make my first affiliate sale. AdSense was covering the hosting costs over that time but not much more. It was my primary business model until I realized that it monetizes at about a dollar per 200 visits -- not page views, <i>visits</i>. Now that I've figured out that one little affiliate link monetizes at 20-50 times that amount, I'm doing slightly better. Still barely paying the bills, though, one year in. This is not an easy way to make a living, but it can be a decent, honest way to make a living if you can't find a job.

[newBum76]

Now I can finally contribute to this thread!

Made my first sale after about a month of taking action, a month before that was spent just reading/researching.

I could have easily condensed that work down into less than a week too if I was more focused.......working on that!

-Jon

[Ofthemix]

It took me 3 months to make my first sale, but I've made consistant sales on a weekly basis since then. I think it has a lot to do with picking the right product. All I used was bum marketing, linking EzineArticles to a Squidoo lens.

[newBum76]

Originally Posted by Ofthemix

It took me 3 months to make my first sale, but I've made consistant sales on a weekly basis since then. I think it has a lot to do with picking the right product. All I used was bum marketing, linking EzineArticles to a Squidoo lens.

Did you do any social bookmarking, or any kind of backlink building?

[Ofthemix]

Originally Posted by newBum76

Did you do any social bookmarking, or any kind of backlink building?

None. My articles weren't even keyword optimized.

[edhan]

Originally Posted by newBum76

Now I can finally contribute to this thread!

Made my first sale after about a month of taking action, a month before that was spent just reading/researching.

I could have easily condensed that work down into less than a week too if I was more focused.......working on that!

-Jon

Yes. To many who are yet to succeed, you will need to be more Focus and taking action in order to see result. If not, then you will still be sitting on the fence .... waiting with no result. Glad that you have understod the concept of takng action for result.

[mdigital57]

I made my first sale within the first month I got into internet marketing. Gosh.. it felt so good after all the efforts applied. It is now my third month and I have five sales in total - same affiliate product and all recurring income. I must say though I have such good results because I joined a really good program that trains one to become a professional internet marketer within 90 days...I'm still and Im hungry for better results.

[Tiffan Meloney]

I didn't make a sale...i made commissions . So i made a sale in one month of just reading. I just started a blog and got it ranking in 3 weeks. Pretty good for a newbie.